Americas

This preliminary research will focus on exploring and more fully if/how public procurements in Brazil can be used to reward campaign donations from firm donors.

Aaron’s project contributes to his dissertation, A Revolutionary Gospel, which examines how Russian writers transformed their Christian heritage into a new socialist religion while exiled in the US and Italy between 1905 and 1917.

Research looking at late nineteenth century uses of informal, marriage-like relationships to navigate changing economic contexts and divorce and inheritance laws in Mexico and Guatemala

Roversa is a low-cost, flexible robot that introduces students to physical, sequential programming skills with the ability to grow with the learner.

Three major corporations came out of the Arkansas Ozarks in the mid-twentieth century: Walmart, Tyson Foods, and J.B. Hunt.

As part of a book in progress on the social and geographic proximities of the queer performance and activist cultures of downtown New York City in the 1970s, I will be conducting research in the Downtown Collection of the Fales Library, New York University.

Moral values, some of the most deeply held beliefs an individual or a culture can hold, are particularly difficult to change.

With the help of the Graduate Global Research Grant, I will be able to conduct preliminary research necessary to write the first chapter of my dissertation project on the work of Dominican-Haitian artist Firelei Báez.

My study will consider the scalar relationship between embodiment, indigenous craftsmanship, and the commodification of land, asking how we, as designers, can apply the idea of scaling to use the details of a place as a method to understand the whole.

Mary-Dryden Maio translates into English the first book of poetry, Jardín Transparente (Transparent Garden), by the Ecuadorian poet Camila Peña.